The Soros Files Brazil: Biggest Corruption Scandal in Brazil's History

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Brazilian President-Select Lula has nominated the head of the Open
Society Foundations Latin America as part of his transition team.
George Soros has been heavily invested in Brazil ever since buying
into criminally corrupt state-owned oil giant Petrobras in 2008,
which was subsequently involved in the biggest corruption scandal
in Brazilian history.
On November 16, purported Vice-President Gerald Alckimin
announced that Pedro Abramovay would be a member of purported
President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's transition team.
Abramovay has been executive director of the Open Society
Foundations in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2013. During
Lula's first reign 2003 to 2011, Abramovay was an adviser to Minister
of Justice Marcio Thomaz Bastos, who served 2003 to 2007 and
died 2014.
As Minister of Justice, Thomaz Bastos helped Lula pack the Supreme
Court with many of the far-left Justices that today stand accused
of state capture and whitewashing election fraud. As a lawyer, he
defended several companies involved in Brazil's massive corruption
scandal known as "Car Wash" (Lava Jato) and is accused of money
laundering going back before 2007, Antagonista reported 2018. Thomaz
Bastos died with a fortune estimated at R$393 million (US $73
million), not bad for a lawyer.
In August 2008, George Soros' Quantum Fund invested $811 million
in Petroleo Brasileiro (PetroBras), "making the Brazilian
state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding"
at 22% of Quantum's holdings at the time, Bloomberg reported.
By a lucky coincidence, the Obama administration soon thereafter
began funding offshore drilling in Brazil. In August 2009, the U.S.
Export-Import Bank announced it was loaning PetroBras $2 billion
"to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's
Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro", the Wall
Street Journal reported.
Soon after, President Barack Obama announced a ban on offshore
drilling in the USA in December of 2010 and ended oil tax breaks
for US companies in January 2011. Obama "was declared in contempt
of court for defying a federal judge who ordered the moratoriums
reversed. Some wondered if the president wasn't intentionally acting
against U.S. interests," Business Daily wrote.
The massive influx of cash allowed PetroBras to sell $70 billion
in new stock, the largest stock issue in history, for what Reuters
called "the world's biggest oil exploration program" for the Tupi oil
field, discovered in 2007, which was renamed "Lula" (squid).
In 2014, a massive government scheme to defraud Petrobras was
revealed, the largest corruption scandal in Brazilian history, "Car
Wash". "By March 2015 federal prosecutors had formally accused
110 people of corruption, money laundering, and other financial
crimes. In April Petrobras … announced that the company had lost
$17 billion to mismanagement and graft", according to Encyclopedia
Britannica.
On March 4, 2016, former President Lula da Silva's home was raided
by police, and he was charged with money laundering. Lula's successor
as President, Dilma Roussef, tried to make him her Chief of Staff, to
grant him immunity against prosecution, but on March 13, 2016, over
a million Brazilians protested, calling for Roussef's impeachment. On
April 17, over two-thirds of the Deputies, including her former
allies, voted to impeach Roussef.
Lula was considered the mastermind of the scandal and was charged
with accepting bribes worth $1.1 million. His wife died in February
2016 of a stroke, In July, Lula was convicted of fraud and money
laundering, and sentenced to 10 years in prison, later increased to
12. Lula should be ineligible to run for President as a convicted
criminal, but the pro-Lula Supreme Court vacated the charges in 2021
in a transparent move to install their candidate and ally.
In the current election, the Supreme Court labeled it
"disinformation" to even mention Lula's criminal record. When Crusoe
magazine revealed connections between members of the Supreme
Court and the Car Wash affair 2019, Chief Justice Alexandre
de Moraes ordered the story removed.
During the Car Wash affair, there were still critical conservative
media in Brazil, including the leading publishing house, Globo
Corporation, which publishes O Globo, the largest newspaper in
Brazil, and runs Globonews cable channel. Leftist critics even
claimed Globo "demonized and delegitimized Dilma, as well
as ex-President Lula and the PT … by selectively associating them
with pervasive corruption."
Now, however, it seems Brazilian media, as well as worldwide media,
have been entirely co-opted by the Left, to the point where they
entirely ignore the fact that millions of Brazilians have been
protesting in the streets for 43 days. Gateway Pundit and War Room
journalist Matthew Tyrmand are the only international journalists
covering the protests.
O Globo is now a member of George Soros' Project Syndicate, which
received at least $1,532,105 from the Open Society Foundations
between 2016 and 2020. Media Research Center calls Project
Syndicate "a global propaganda operation."
"There is arguably no publication that exemplifies Soros' hold on the
global media more than Project Syndicate, self-dubbed 'The World's
Opinion Page," according to the Media Research Center.
Several Globo stars are linked to Open Society, as Bruno Garshagen
wrote in Gazeta do Povo in 2017. Globonews TV commentator Ronaldo
Lemos is  co-founder and director of the Rio Institute of Technology
and Society (ITS Rio), which received US$ 350,000 between 2014
and 2015 from Open Society. The ITS Rio team also included Eliane
Costa, who was sponsorship manager at PetroBras from 2003 to 2012
(that is, throughout the Car Wash period); and Open Society fellow
Lucia Nader.
Lemos helped develop the Marco Civil da Internet, Brazil's "Net
Neutrality" law, "which opened the possibility of regulation and
control by the State and which was used by the Courts as a legal
basis for suspending the WhatsApp application", Garshagen writes:
"ITS Rio created the site Mudamos.org, "which receives money from
Soros and is proud to have participated in the creation of the Marco
Civil da Internet."
Globonews commentator Ilona Szabo de Carvalho is the executive
director of the Igarape Institute Drug Policy Program, which received
$2.005.846 from Open Society 2016-2020. In April 2015, she organized
a dinner for George Soros together with the current Lula adviser and
Open Society Latin America diector Pedro Abramovay.
In May, Bolsonaro adviser Filipe Martins wrote that George Soros'
Open Society "created yet another instrument to interfere in Brazil,
destabilize our society and promote groups and individuals linked to
the left to prominent positions."
2. Uma dessas pessoas e George Soros, que atraves da Open Society
(rede de fundacoes e organizacoes globalistas) criou mais um
instrumento para interferir no Brasil, desestabilizar nossa sociedade
e promover grupos e individuos vinculados a esquerda a posicoes de
destaque. pic.twitter.com/P3nteaNQpO
- Filipe G. Martins (@filgmartin) May 4, 2022
Martins pointed out the think tank "Washington Brazil Office" was
just recently founded, on January 31st in the US capital, "with the
purpose of defaming the (Brazilian) government abroad and promoting
in our country ideas that are foreign to our culture, our history, to our
traditions and our political ethos."
The Washington Brazil Office briefs the Biden administration,
including National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Climate Ambassador
John Kerry, Presidential Advisor for Latin America Juan Gonzalez,
and Samantha Power, director of the USAID agency, according to BBC
News Brasil.
3. Trata-se do "Washington Brazil Office", think tank fundado no dia
31 de janeiro, na capital dos EUA, com a finalidade de difamar o
governo no exterior e promover em nosso pais ideias estranhas a nossa
cultura, a nossa historia, as nossas tradicoes e ao nosso ethos politico.
pic.twitter.com/Ux1jnBM0ne - Filipe G. Martins (@filgmartin)
May 4, 2022
Australian Quadrant writes:
"In August 2021, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited
Brazil to issue the following warning to the Brazilian president: do
not even dare even to question the reliability of your country's
electronic voting system. A month earlier, in July 2021, the newly
installed Biden sent his CIA director, William Burns, to travel
to the country to meet with senior Brazilian officials. During that
meeting, the U.S. delegation warned the Brazilian government that
President Bolsonaro "should stop casting doubt in his country's
[entirely electronic] electoral process". Next, at the June 2022
Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, the Biden administration
notoriously repeated the same warning that the U.S. government
would not tolerate Bolsonaro casting any doubt on the reliability
and security of the nation's voting machines."
"It is up to every Brazilian who cares about the fate of Brazil, and
who does not want to see our country lose its autonomy even more,
to realize what is behind this international campaign of defamation
of the Bolsonaro Government, to denounce it and respond to it at
the fullest," Martins said.